I am so happy to report that i am actually starting to feel better after all these months suffering with IBS and excessive win. It could actually be an acute bout of IBS that set of a chain of problems and now i have started getting it under control the bowels have calmed down and are slowly returning to normal. I know its going to take time as my sides are still sore and i am still getting pains in the lower back and sharp pains in the chest as the wind is starting to move and disperse . I am now praying that this bad episode is coming to an end i will start to get back to y self still having to deal with the head attacks.
My head hasn’t been as bad as i was expecting this time of year. Don;t get me wrong i am still getting them on a daily basis but no where near as many as they used to be. Now i get one or two a day, witch i can use the injections to deal with, but sometimes i end up getting four or five and have to end up riding out some of the attacks. The trouble with riding them out is that they always tend to last longer than an hour and i never seem to be able to ease it when they are really bad. The oxygen can help reduce the length of the attack but doesn’t work every time. It is good if you can catch the attack early and you can even stop an attack from developing if you stay on long enough at the start of the first sign of an attack.
I am still getting these pains in the lower back and also problems when i walk. Its not as bad as it has been with these other problems but today it seems to be calm so i am hoping it stays that way. The last few months i have been to hell and back and can’t believe how many problems i have been getting and now i becoming more and more convinced its the side effects of some of the medication i have to take every day. I have agreed with the doctor to start a reduction on my Pregabilin tablets and keep reducing every 3 days to see if its them that is causing the problem. I have to stop the reduction if it starts to make my attacks bad again. I am really hoping its not them that are causing the discomfort as they have really helped reduce the attacks i get. Also with the help of the injections i have been starting to live a better life. I am now started to eat properly and healthy due to my high cholesterol and the risk to my heart. I still can’t travel any distance with out someone being with me due to my fear if having an attack in public.
I am lucky as my Mother and Step-father always help me out and will take me anywhere if i ask but when you are trying to become self sufficient, no matter what illness you have, you have to try and get on with your life and learn how to deal with things yourself. Suffering mild bi-polar disorder since i was 10 or 11 years old and having it aggravated due to the attacks i get making me go through some mad mood swings and ending up with unstable depression can really take it out of you and there are times where it really scares me as i am unable to cope with change to my routines or completing the easiest of tasks but end up cracking up if you do something wrong. for years no one seemed to believe me about the pain i was getting every couple of months and some doctors even thought it was my imagination making a migraine even worst than it already is. I was even put into a mental hospital for my owns safety as i was dropping into real bad depression and then suddenly, when called into the office for an interview with the Psychologist, he actually witnessed a full blown attack with the side of my face drooping and sweat pouring off me.
Within a week i was released with a big apology and my doctor was told to refer me but it wasn’t until my doctor was signed off for doing things bad and me getting a new doctor that i ended up getting the help i needed. Now the specialists want to try anything possible to see if they can get the condition under control and i can’t thank him enough and now my new doctor is on my side i have been getting good service so can’t really complain. I just wish i could get the MRI scan over and done with to see why my walking is so bad and why my bum keeps going numb. I am really starting to think i have a couple of different nerves trapped as the one in the shoulder seems to always set of a head attack. All i am going to do for the time being is have a really lazy weekend and see if i can regain my strength and hope what ever caused all this problem is now gone.
